Vaibhav Mishra

Vaibhav is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre of Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London.

He brings over 16 years of experience serving the public and private sectors. His research interests include sovereign debt, public finance, climate finance, sustainable infrastructure development, health and nutrition economics, and industrial policy.

He has been associated with the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) in New York, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. At the UN he has contributed to the Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) 2022 and has led the research project on India’s green energy finance landscape.

He has served the French Development Agency (Agence française de développement, AFD) in Paris and was involved in conceptualising and developing the world’s first database of public development banks. While serving at AFD, Vaibhav was also involved in organising the first Finance in Common (FIC) summit, a meeting of the global network of 540+ Public Development Banks in 2020 aiming to align financial flows with the Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement for Climate Change. He has been a member of the UNCTAD annual review meetings.

He has also consulted with think tanks including the Institute of Development Studies, UK ITAD Ltd UK, and Foundations like The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).

• Sovereign debt
• Climate finance
• Sustainable infrastructure
• Industrial policy for renewable energy
• Sustainable and inclusive growth